Over the years, both residents and visitors alike, have lined the streets at festival time for the parades; and the parades never fail to please. It’s not just the Mardi Gras-style beads that are tossed by the ton but judging by the looks on the little kid’s faces, the candy does not disappoint either.

The Cedar key City Commission gave its official nod of approval for the use of the George T. Lewis airfield as a launching site for drones that will collect data needed to map the condition of seagrass beds in the area.

Despite Saturday's crowd of between 10,000 to 15,000 visitors and about 5,000 on Sunday, Cedar Key Police Chief Virgil Sandlin, and Fire Chief Robert Robinson said things were relatively quiet this past weekend. Sandlin "guestimated" the crowd size, because there were no traffic counters out on the main road into town.